Family Help Services

Family is supposed to mean safety, security,love and happiness. This is not always the case. Sometimes children are born into violent or disruptive homes. Neighbours turn the other way and friends aren't sure how to help. Please no matter if you know the household or not if you see violence report it before the child or children are hurt or raised to carry out the abusers foot steps. I can not stress this topic enough.

Mental abuse is just as harmful expecially to a child, a child that has been subjected to constant negativity will grow in most cases insecure and afraid.

There are many ways to get help, but sometimes the parents are to afraid to step forward and admitt that what they are doing is wrong.

"Monkey see, monkey do" it's one of those sayings that we find so cute yet can also be fatal.

There are lot's of things that cause families to malfunction for ex: the mother gets depressed with always hearing the baby cry so she resorts to drugs and soon after the baby is being neglected or ignored or how about the father who gets frustrated easily and continously spanks his child to hard.

This can happen to any family and its up to all of use to try to stop the abuse. If you are one of these people or know anyone who is in this situation please recommend this site. Here are some web sites that offer different types of help.

Join Canadian Child Welfare

http://www.cwlc.ca/

Fact Sheet On Child Abuse

http://www.canada-justice.ca/en/ps/fm/childafs.html

Website for ACF

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/

Statistics and Research for United States

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm

Child Welfare Link (States)

http://www.childwelfare.com/kids/links.htm

International Child Welfare

http://www.chsfs.org/International_Child_Welfare.html